On-screen keyboard
November 24th, 2005
The project I'm currently working on involves a foreign-language version of our main application. My colleague George passed on a useful tip to help you see what characters your keyboard outputs.
Go to Start > Run and enter:
osk
The On-screen keyboard dialog box is displayed. This is particularly useful when you have your locale set to something unfamiliar because it allows you to easily see what character is produced by each key on the keyboard.
Having said that, it doesn't always work. In my standard UK locale it tells me that I can get a Euro symbol by pressing Ctrl+Alt+4. I don't, I get nothing.
But it's handy to know about.
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